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FOR SALE.
FINE PLANTATION CONTAINING
ESQ ACRES ODE, LAND.

eighty OF which are woodland, all under
fence, with the following Improvements:
One large dwelling, two cabins, two
corn~cribs. The place is well dItched.
il is situated about six miles south' of
Abbeyille, and known as the HUFF
place. 1t will be sold for cash, or on
liberal terms. For particulars, apply
to or address Gus GodchauX. at Abbe-
vile, or l.. Burgires, Baldwin, postoffiice.
st. Mary Parish. Place to be delivered
January l, 1888.
L. EDRGIRES. !
.InIy ~ ISGT-m
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NOTICE.
Land Office at New Orleans. Ia.

Land Office at New Orleans. Ia.
April, 1.,t'a. 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the foliewinr
named settler has filed notice of his iiftsAs
ton to make final proof in SUI ,,ort Of his
claim, and that said preof will be made,
before the Judge. @r IN his. absence tho
Clerk of the District Court, al Abheville.
La, on Monday, Sept. :. 1887. viz:
Naleirien nartez he mace Homestead
Entry Ma. 1885 for the North East guar
ter stei'tlon - Town Ship IL south, Range
9 East, La. Meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous r.riit lence upon, and
cultivation of, said laut.. V~iz:-Antcine
h. Bronussard, AutoinG Bernard. r. d.
Lrge. Tleosinc Vincent.
all of Vermiiinn Paris / Louisiana.
July 80. 1887.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA, I
PARISH OF yERMILION.
10Th JdulclaI DIStrlct toHtF-
Succession of Jacob Cole. Snr

successor OF Jacob tbits IHis
No. 81.
Fly yirtne Of an order of sale granted BY
~ the Honorable 18th judicial Dis1Ii.es
Court, III and for the parish OF NerinHaonf
and State Of Louisiana, IN the ma1teIs -
the above entitled and numbered estaie'
the undersigned will on
w Wednesday,. September 4 Ase1'
and from day TO day thereafter. SCI ~
public auction. TO the last ana hisn1so
bidder at the late residence of Jaeop loir,
Snr.. deceased On Mulberry Island, ~
Nerlnilion parish, all the property tesi
and personal belonging TO the ssleeessloi
of said Gacoi, Cole. Snr.. deceased CONSIST
ing of seven hundred head more OF ifs9,
Of horned cattle, q few head OF hofseS' =
dwelling house, household tnrnlt'aei =
loi of fencing. and the following desGtlota
tracts of land situated IN SAID PARISH: :,
All Of fractional section twenty-ohe, -
township u, south of range one ,'s'' 'Dn
tanning Fifty 20E1U0 acres, more or JESS {,
All Of fractional section twenty-five. ~
township seventeen. south 81 fahH'.y
east. containing one hundred ana Setei's
eight 2SIiW acres more or less. f..c
Lots one, two. three ami four OF Ia T.
tionai section twenty-tltee, IN fo"ns,. n
seventeen, south of range zone east outa0
tanning ohe hundred inc tfty-foul 81
| acres more or less. ,lhe
Fifteen acres of the above lands, so1dp.
deceased to Lucy Cole, being Te5ef'eh.
Terms Of Sale Cash. IN
The counter-hrandilig OF the cathe "" .aa
/ he lone at the expense OF the sie'N
if purchasers so desire. car
Ample accommodations viii be maui i,
feeding and lodging all purchasers W.
may attend tie sale. IA
Boats will he in readiness at Abnesrntu 10
for transportation OF persons deSitias
attend the sale.
prxAIsr COLE. ard
! Joseph Cole, Adiar
sue. Of Jacob Cole, %.
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idea Of assisting in the work az 1T
would divert trade from Abbcvll'e ?
There is no doubt that Mr.. Cade
was appointed by your Gohce jury;
no doubt he cane to NermilIon par
isEl, but grave doubts that he inter,
viewed several Of the police lnrors!.
Ne heard that be lad "~hltc4rIe1ged'
his brother, MIR. WIN Cadc, a private
citizen Ct this parish, as to how he
VIM Cadc) NOuqht the police jury
would receive such an appeal and
requested Mr.. VIM CAGE to accom-.
pany him to the police jury (theh in
session)and advocate tho acceptance
of the proposition. We did hear that
Mr.. VIM Cade actually laughed at
Mr.. G.. T. Cade and told him he
thonght the idea was rather prepos-
ferrous, ifaot cheeky, AMI instead Of
assisting him, g. 4. Cade, in his eff
forts with oar police iory, he, VIM
Caae, would do all in his power TO
defeat him. Now, this is how we
heard this, Bro. Iawton. AS to con
tractors having 80 days to complete
his work and right to protect it Nh
Ill completed and accepted no rca.
sonable man will question It.
Unidentified, Bro. Lawton, but DON'T
! ninety DAYS ever come to an end in
Iberia parish ? Please look over
that contract, Mr.. Lawton, and let
US know when work was to have
been finished On this Icvee. As to
the contractor claiming that part Of
the lumber on the old levee was bis
private property, end that It was his
privilege to take 1t up and use it III
construction Of the new work, we
can say that q good many other peo-
pleWore also part owners OF that
lumber: some of them being among
your remarkable neighbors,' who IL
the past. before your police jury de-
termined to eXpend the 'eyoroitaut'
sum Of twelve hundred dollars to
build a pew levae and bridges part
" ont of the contractors old nrIvate
~materiall were forced, for their own
convenience and that IF their
neiohbors Of Iberia parish, to Sub
scribe money and lumber to assist in
huilding the old levee aud bridges
on same. The writer has the names
of several persons, who st different
! times subscribed money for the
above purpose. and who, during the
last few months having occasion to
90 to New Iberia, iound it very hard
and very unjust to hc obliged to
SWIM Grand Marais at risk OF losing
aAorse or being injured in person,
because somebody hand taken up the
bridgeson Tie old Ievce, of which
they were, or considered themselves,
part owners by reason Of above men
toned subscriptions.
IN conclusion, let US say, Bro.
Lawton. That If you would oulv devote
sorrc of that indomItablc energy and
iea,lcssness which Won displayed III
your exposures of the doings of The
Republicans faction in the past to-
wards hauling some Of your Demo
cratic friends in your parish over the
Goals once in a while, YOU might see
a wonderful change in Il short time.
*#&
Parish Of Vermilion, Aug. 1887.
ss,x
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Editor Abbeyiile Meridional,l
Our attention having been called
to the above article il the New
Iberia Enterprise of the 18th inst,
we must confess to having been CON
siderabIy surprised that an editor"
of Mr.. Lawton's experience and in
te,ligence should have allowed such
an article to 90 to press, let alone
having written it! We have heard
that with some people, "a poor excuse
is better than none" but when party
wishes to make an excuse, and has.
no better one than the above article,
one that is so easily met with facts
that show its fimslness. we think
that silence is undoubtedly to be
preferred. To a person living IN
Vermilion parish, it seems strange
that q parish Of the importance OF
Iberia should find any difficulty IN
enforcing the road law; and stranger
still, that the official Journal Of
iberia parish should nave TO ADMIT
that fact as one Of the mitigating
circumstances why such a disgrace
to any community, as the Grand
Marais levec has been for a number
of years, should exist. There must
be something radically wrong over
there-thcrc is something rotten in
Denmark" We say this is surpris-
ing to a citizen of Nermilion, for the
reason that in this parish the road
law IS rigidIg and impartially en-
forced, the richest az well as the
poorest male inhahitant, from fifteen
years to fifty years Of age, is required
to and does perform such road duty
as the oycrsccr in lis road district
deems necessary to keep the road in
order. Should any person within
these limits refuse to do such duty,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1887-08-27

Farmers and others who have a
little leisure time for the next few
months will find it their interest to
write to 3. f. Johnson & Co.. of
Richmond, Va, whose advertisement
appears in another column. They
offer great inducements to persons
10 work for them all or part Of their
time.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1887-08-27

General Leon Jastremski, Prcsi-
dent Of The Democratic State Central
Committee has issued q call for a
meeting Of the committee al New
Orleans, on Tuesday, the 18th 0!
October, for the purpose of arrang-
ing for the holding Of the State
nominating convention.
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STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Twenty-ifth judicial District Conr,
Parish of Nernlilion.
Succession Of f'elagie aEeaux.

Succession Of Pelagie Meaux.
No. II.
Notice is hereby given to all parties in
terested in the said succession, or IN NJ
any opposition 10 make to the tahlean -
final distribution and final settIcment.
pending for homologation of said snceaa
sion, to Tile the same in writing in The
Office of the clerk of court within ,,n ao
DAYS from the date hereof. ''
Given under my official signature and
seal OF court THIS eth day Of August, ISL.
LASIIE BRouSsARD.
Clerk of Cont
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49,
Justice Of the peace, nd the full
punishment as prescribe / by law for
such offence, is metcd out to hun.
At first we had q few II 'ctefS-somc
who determined ID test The constitu-
tiouaIitv Of the law-bt t when they
found that orr district c ourt %inyari-
ably snstaiGed the lower courts, such
opposition ceased. " henever the
oyerseers failed to perform their
duties. our grand jnri: have not
hcsitated to bring such nt 'glcct to the
notice of the district o ri.
The strangest part Of this state
ment OF the official iouru al OF IBERIA
parish" is, "many olllels 'f%citlzens OF
Iberis) manifest great il difference,
and Oh every occa ion pla &C impede
ments III the way O. tlH2 constant
efforts made by our police jury end
those Of It's road oversee rs" The
inhabitants of Eermiiictr parish,
living near to and almost upon the
line dividing it from lberi a parish,
willingly and punctnally perform
road duty. These inhas itants Of
Nermilion are the same re- ce, same
class. and in many Instance belong
to tie same families as tIn? inhabit-
itants Just over the line in Iberia
parish, some Of whom are evidently
meant by the above, lla We yonr
police jury aud road Oversee ers eyer
tried to enforce the law,t.' The ex-
tent Of bringing the deIinqr ent5 to
trial before Justices Of the pc ace and
your district court, MIR. hawton:
The writer hereof, while travelling
toward iberia parish q few weeks
since, saw an old man blowing aud
wo, king the road some distance from
Grand Marais levee. Whea cues
toned as 10 where the parish line
was, this cid man said: Just yon-
der, where the tai road comns3pcec -
Further questions elected the fact
that this old person was rot obliged
to work the road, being over age,
but having a few days to spare IRON
his crop, he thought he would DO
what he could with his plow aAd
team TOWARDS making a good road
dams p pqToi&&e erH1tAon,' as ne
remarked with pride; and yet this
same party had relatives Just over
the line! AZ to the remarks OF tie
Official Journal referring to the
Indifference OF the police Jdry 81
NeEmlllon parish to tins eve sore"
and plague spot, "e VIII emily say
that the writer II that statement
shows the greatest ignorance 'na%In-
able, Ter i Is !nipoS<li'ic for any
: person at ali familiar with the PRO
oeedlng5 >ot tie police jury OF Yer
million parish for some years past,
to have made such q statement. 80
TO the members 81 your poi'ce jury,
Mr.. iawton,D aud asa them What
action their conmItlee, appointed 10
meet committee iFom police jafy 81
NerniIlon, took when tie two com
mlttecs met:
, As to the Grand Mara's has al
; ways been considered. and s'4onld be
. the dividing line Of the two parishes,
and it would be but Just for Nermll-
ion to share the expense Of maintain
lug bridges over it, we would res
= ~pectfu!ly ask Mr. lawton To inform
Ms by whom has it been SO consid,
cred? Certainly not by your asscs
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Tine Grand Ysarsi& Question.

Rf+
The above complimentary article
to Iberia and its citizens, in regard
TO their public roads. is from the
Abbeville MERIDI0NAL, and we com
mend it to their careful ~perusal. We
DO not feel justified III making a
general defense III their behalf, be-
cause while some are disposed to
labor in the interest OF good roads.
many Others manifest great lndlt-
ference, and on every occasion place
impedimonts il the way Of the con
slant efforts made b. chr Police
jury and those Ct It's road o]verSeers.
SO far. however, as relates to the
structures Of the MERIpl0NAL upon
our Police jury and the Grand
Marais, We will say to our contrere.
that If the Police Jury Of Nermilion
had manifested the same interest
toward the eye sore" ard plague
spot" as Las been SHOWN by the
Police Jury Of Iberia, the evil would
long since have been remedled. The
Grand Marais has always been Cen
sldered, and should be the dividing
line of the two parishes, and 1t
would be but reasonable for Nermll-
ion to share the expense of main
tanning bridges over it; and fault
finding from that source is ia bad
grace, especially when iberia parish
has Just e~ataiied the "exorhltant"
expense of twelve hundred dollars
in having a substantial embankment
and bridges built over the marais
much to tie convenience Of ON
charitable neighbors, and or the evt
OF its beng open to public travel.
Furthermore, when the Police
Jury Of iberia determined to bridge
the Grand Marais, Mr.. g. L. Cade
one Of its members, was appointed
to confer with the Police Jury O
Vermili.n and solicit its co-opera
ton and assistance, and he reported
that he had interviewed several O
the Vermilion police jurors, and tha
they laughed at the idea Of assisting
in the work, as it wonld divert trade
from AbbeviIIe. Now, how is this
Bro. Felter?
At this point. the Police Jury o
iberia advertised for bids to do tht
work, and the contract was awarde,
to Mr.. Louis D~elcambre, the loves
bidder, and he was granted ninety
days within which to complete TIN
work. So far as concerns the con
tractors right 20 protect his work
until completed aud accepted, II
reasonable man will question it.
We do not approve of Mr.. Del
cambre taking up the cid bridge
before the new work was completed
but he claims that part Of the lem
Der was his private property, an'
that it was his privilege to take i
up and make use Of it in the con
s~truction of the new work.
;, So far as the road this side Of til
marais not being worked for owe
=, two years, we are in a position t.
contradict, for we do know that i
was put in good condition last sprin:
i under the supervision Of Mr.. JosepI
, Landry. Jr., road overseer.
We sympathize fully with Mr.
Putnam in the accident that befel
+ and the annoyance caused him.'-Ne'
Iberia Enterprise.
J ~. .lln-.t1n Mnrn6.nrnI
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Judging from the prolonged and
vigorous howl raised by the 1'ensas
Gazctte and several other white
mans governor" papers in the bot,
IONS, we conclude that hulldozing
mus. lie the chief Of all political, II
not Christian, virtues. With these
gentry a mere lofty culogy upon a
mans civic virtues and statesman
ship can not be pronounced after
having said he was n bulldozcr."
1t is strange, passing strange, that
such ]ponscnsical reasons should be
advanced in support Of Governor
McEncry. or in depreciation OF
General Nichols. a bulldozer, for
sooth! let every knight lower his
proud plume to this newly crowned
chicftain, aud admit that the ability
to tcrrify a few ignorant, tlmid
negroes, is proof Of hcroism beyond
DISPUTE. When these gentlemen have
placed the bulldozing saints at the
head Of the calendar, we hope they
Will not forget to %resurrect the King
ol buIldozcrs, Billy Pitt Kellogg,
and his mctropolitan5, rcserying a
rcd letter day for hem. True. Billy
was not a Democrat, but it must be
confessed that he inauguratcd the
doctrine that fraud, violence and
intimidation were Gil e2cusablc and
essential VIXEN party success de
mlanded. Should the order d
things bc reversed, We r certain
She bulldozed bulldozers Will rcnd
the heavens with their bowls OF III
1lrcd innocence. Bulldozing is 9
crime, and II IS with poor grace tina
its defenders praise i in the name
. ,aw. order and good government
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1887-08-27

We publish in this issue a letter
from Lake Arthur, in which the
writer freely discusses the wants OF
his section, and to us his claims seem
10 be exceedingly we'll founded, SO
far as relates to the public school.
We should thiuk if he or they can
guarantee an average attendance OF
zen pupils per day, and will make
application TO our worthy school
board, they would grant the request
and send a teacher. Should their
first attempt, however, prove a fail
ure, we would suggest that the
neighborhood unite and secure a
comfortable house for a school and
tllou employ q good teacher, which
could be had for a salary OF sag
fifty dollars per month, and as soon
IS the school authorities see that you
are in earnest in tie matter, they
will, no doubt, come to your assist.
ance. As to the legislator, ali we
have to say is this. bring ont your
man, announce his name in your
parish naner and he will stand ar
equal chance with the other candi
dates, Of which We arc Informed
7hcre are already two in the field
We are of the opinion, though, judg
ing from the present condition o
affairs in this part of the parish
that the candidate to be successful
must declare himself an anti.Sunday
Jaw man.
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Parish Of NermiIion, Aug. 1887.

cTATE OF LOUISIANA, Parish of Yer
- ~miilnn-25th ristrjet Court No. 70.
Succession OF Josephine Sicily
application of Syphfoycn MarceauX,
administration Of said succession to be
DISCHARGED.
Whereas Svpbroyeu N~earceaux, admin
~'srraror Of the succession OF Josephine
Sicily. decd, has made application for his
tnai discharge as such administrator,
and fer the release Of himself, ana sure
ties on his administrator bond. how,3 II
persons having opposition to mako 10 u =.
discharge of SAID adminiGtrat"r, and tns
release of himself and s~ureties are her ah,
notified to file such opposition III Wrr.i,gii
my office within ten days from this. tate.
Given under nay official s~lgnatn re ans
seal of court, this 9th day of An's, Isl, 1887
lASTIE BEOUsSAEA, CLERK.
StpNtlPS a White. AltYa.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-01-12
NOTES.

The American brgantine J d spreekels, Captain
Fries, arrived in port yesterd " forenoon % days from
San Francisco, with cargo Of general merchandise.
She is docked a, the o S Cos wharf
The barkentine Discovery. Captain Lee arrived yes
terday afternoon, II days from San Francisco The
captain reports fresh and NV winds after the first
day out.
The barkentne John Smith has been chartered by
Schaeer Coto load sugar for San Francisco on the
first Of February
The barkentine Mary wint.man Captain Baclsus,
smiled for San Francisco yesterday afternoon, taking
I3,ro4 bags Of ugar and 1900 bags of rice. Domestic
value. ssr,464.so.
The Schooner waimnu brought a,33o bags Of sugar
from Kun.
The sailing Of the brigantines W C Irwin and Con.
suelo was postponed until "a o'clock noon to-day.
The steamer Bishop was detained few minutes
after her sailing time yesterday, through line beeom-
ing en,ange around III. pr per
The steamer Explorer is still the Marine Railway.
The sailing Of the schooner Moiwahine has been
postponed till tomorrow.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-01-12
EUROPE.
The Bulgarian Trouble,

Lord Iddesleigh, British Minister of
Foreign Affairs, invited the Bulgarian
delegates to visit him at his country
place. TINS would be interpreted on
the continent as a distinct affront to
Russia, of which Russia, nevertheless,
cannot complain.
1t was rumored in Vienna. Deem
Der goth, that Russia and Turkey had
agreed to send a Joint ultimatum to
Bulgaria, ordering the Government to
comply with their demands under pain
OF occupation of Roumeia. Nothing
definite had been received from Prince
Nicholas Of Mingrelia. Odessa tele-
grams, however, report that init nate
friends Of the Prince hive received
more hopeful news, presumably from
the Prince himself
1t IS stated that Germany and Great
Britain have given their consent to
Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia occupy
ing the throne of Bulgaria.
The Paris correspondent of the
London Times affirms that he has in
formation from an undoubted source
that Russia and Germany signed a
direct alliance the middle of December
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-01-12
Miscellaneous.

A movement is on foot for forming
an Improved Knights Of Labor, owing
to dissatisfaction with the present organ
lzation. Among otner principles to be
adopted are having as few officers as
possible and paying them salaries some
what commensurate with what they
could earn working al their trades.
President Cleveland has been ailing,
but was better at last accounts.
New York and Brooklyn have an cpl
demic Of measles.
Capt Warren and w. r. Wing, of
the bark Atlantic wrecked December
18th outside San Francisco, are under
a charge of .manslaughter, the trial to
have come off in the Police Court
January 9th.
John Roach has resumed business
again as a member Of the incorporated
Morgan Iron Works Company Of New
York.
Mr.. Gay, of Louisiana, one Of the
milionares Of the House Of Represen.
tatives, has about 100000 invested
IN sugar plantations.
1t appears that the american ex
hibition" projected in London is an
English enterprise, and President Cleve
land has no connection with it, hi,
name being used without authority.
The steamer Bradish Johnson, usec
as boarding house, was burned a
Jackson, on the Big Bee River, clever
miles above Mobile, on the night o
December 29th. There was no telling
just how many laborers lost their live
in the fire and in the river but Their,
were about dozen missing.
Michael Davitt, the irish member o
Parliament, was married at Oakland
December goth, to Miss Mary Yore
an hriress, and the couple were t.
leave for Ireland January grid.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-01-12
En- lish Pc itics.

Lord Randolph Churchill has re-
signed from the British Ministry.
Being democrat by nature he could
not get along with his Tory colleagues.
Lord Salisbury is left in a difficult posi-
ton by Lord Randolph's resignation,
as, without the impetuous young leader
and his following to rely on 10 tine
House of Commons, the Ministry will
be in danger of overthrow. After Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach had been in
duced to resign the Chief Secretaryship
of Ireland and accept the Chancellor
ship OF the Exchequer, he was induced
to remain in the former office. This
was owing to the discovery Of a strong
belief that the effect Of the change
would be to take all the heart out Of
the landlords, who look to the Govern
ment as their friends to back them Out
in resisting the Leagues "pan OF cam
ralgn."
Lord Harrington was reported tc
have refused an invitation to enter thu
Ministry which gratihed the Tory
purity, who wanted no infusion 0